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National Debt Tracker: American taxpayers (you) are now on the hook for $36,216,470,672,037.87 as of 3/31/25
now exceed the costs of Medicare and the defense budget. SOARING DEFICITS TO PUSH PUBLICLY HELD DEBT TO RECORD LEVEL IN 4 ...
The U.S. National Debt: Historical Data and What It Means for Consumers
The challenge is that the U.S. has to pay interest on its debt, which is increasing yearly. The Congressional Budget Office ...
Think The National Debt Is Big Now? Wait Until Trump Tax Cut Extensions Hit
Extending President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts could push the national debt to vast levels by 2054, especially if interest ...
America’s debt is scary now, not later
The national debt is very much like the weather. Everyone complains about it, but no one does much to fix it. In 2009, when ...
Fox News18d
GOP lawmaker confronted at town hall says protesters' response to $36T national debt 'not right'
A House GOP lawmaker's town hall devolved into chaos minutes after it began this week, and he's now responding to hecklers who criticized his concerns about the national debt. "We heard from a lot ...
The Hill21d
Cassidy: The national debt is crushing the American Dream
In 2017, national debt was under $26 trillion. Now, it’s over $36 trillion — a nearly 40 percent increase over just eight years. Trump thinks creatively about cutting spending and raising revenue.
WRAL22d
Mike Walden: Can we make sense and cents about the federal debt?
Second is the “periodic interest payment” made to those who finance the national debt. Those interest payments are approaching $1 trillion annually and are now the fourth highest category of ...
CBS News10d
3 debt relief decisions borrowers should think about now
With so many consumers owing so much, some may be wondering: Is now the time to get help with my debt? That being said, asking for help is never easy, especially when it comes to debt relief ...
New York Daily News21d
Readers sound off on the national debt, Dem leadership and state spending priorities
It has to do with which of our political parties is better at handling the economy and, to a certain extent, the federal deficit and debt. I did a little research and the results were quite ...
Washington Examiner29d
America’s crushing national debt threat to freedom
A crushing national debt affects our nation’s ability ... The left-wing Brookings Institution argued that “publicly held debt now equals 70% of gross domestic product, a threshold many ...
The Hill20d
Government efficiency is good — fiscal responsibility is better
The national debt now exceeds the nation’s gross domestic product by over 20 percent. If a company managed its finances the way that the federal government does, it would need to file for ...
CNBC19d
The best debt relief companies of April 2025
Accredited Debt Relief Best for smaller debts: National Debt Relief Best for affordability: New Era Debt Solutions Best for avoiding fees: Americor Best for longstanding history: Pacific Debt ...